Robin Thicke Talks about his Separation with Wife Paula Patton

Paula Patton hasnít been on the public radar ever since she split with her husband Robin Thicke. "I haven't seen her for four months," Robin Thickerevealed during a Hot 97 radio interview Tuesday. "We're cool. She's the best girl in the world, a great mother and still a good friend, but because we just weren't ever togetheranymore and I still had so much I wanted to apologize for and things I wanted to take responsibility for, so that's pretty much what the album's about. But I also want to wish her well and let her know that she's a great person and she deserves to have a good life."

Paula is a testament to that notion. "The album is exactly what happens when you lose the love of your life and you're trying to figure it out in your head to move on and get through it all," the musician said.

The lyrics are heartfelt. "Sometimes it's about her and sometimes I'm talking directly to her," he said.

. "If you've been together that long, you kind of became adults together instead of being adults and then meeting," he said. If he and Patton take the time to grow as individuals, the singer-songwriter thinks reconciling is possible: "Maybe a year or two off, we'll become our own people without each other and then it will be meant to be."

"I'm a man. I messed up and I had to lie for a while, and then I stopped lying," he said. "That was actually good for me because I was tired of lying. This whole album is me revealing everything."

Patton, 38, hasn't listened the album in its entirety, he revealed. "I don't think she wants to hear it right now," he said. "I can't speak for her, but I think space is an important part of any healing process."

It's been a sobering few months for Thicke. "When you lose your family, that'll slow you down," he said.

"My music is my therapy. When I make these songs and I listen back to them, they make me feel good about myself because at least I'm admitting my faults," the star said. "I'm trying to become a better man and better person, better father."

"All of our families are still very much in love," he said. "I invite her mom over for dinner and we have dinners together. She'll take the kid to visit my uncle and aunt. But right now, we just don't hang out."